On Apr 19, 2005, at 15:57, BJörn Lindqvist wrote:
RSMotD (random stupid musing of the day): so I wonder if the decorator syntax couldn't be extended for this kind of thing.
@acquire(myLock): code code code
Would it be useful for anything other than mutex-locking? And wouldn't
Well, one obvious use might be, say: @withfile('foo.bar', 'r'): content = thefile.read() but that would require the decorator and block to be able to interact in some way, so that inside the block 'thefile' is defined suitably.
it be better to make a function of the block wrapped in a block-decorator and then use a normal decorator?
From a viewpoint of namespaces, I think it would be better to have the block execute in the same namespace as the code surrounding it, not a separate one (assigning to 'content' would not work otherwise), so a nested function would not be all that useful. The problem might be, how does the _decorator_ affect that namespace. Perhaps: def withfile(filename, mode='r'): openfile = open(filename, mode) try: block(thefile=openfile) finally: openfile.close() i.e., let the block take keyword arguments to tweak its namespace (but assignments within the block should still affect its _surrounding_ namespace, it seems to me...). Alex